Catherine was appointed Regent from July to September 1544 while Henry was on a military campaign in France and in case he lost his life, she was to rule as regent until Edward came of age. However he did not give her any function in government in his will. In 1543, she published her first book, Psalms or Prayers, anonymously. On account of Catherine’s Protestant sympathies, she provoked the enmity of anti-Protestant officials, who sought to turn the King against her; a warrant for her arrest was drawn up in 1545. However, she and the King soon reconciled. Her book Prayers or Meditations became the first book published by an English queen under her own name. She assumed the role of Elizabeth’s guardian following the King’s death, and published a second book, The Lamentations of a Sinner.

Born out of wedlock, raised in the West Indies, and orphaned as a child, Hamilton pursued a college education through the help of local wealthy men. Recognized for his abilities and talent, he was sent to King’s College (now Columbia University), in New York City. Hamilton played a major role in the American Revolutionary War. At the start of the war in 1775, he organized an artillery company. He soon became the senior aide to General Washington, the American forces’ commander-in-chief. Washington sent him on numerous important missions to tell generals what Washington wanted. After the war, Hamilton was elected to the Congress of the Confederation from New York. He resigned, to practice law, and founded the Bank of New York. Hamilton was among those dissatisfied with the weak national government. He led the Annapolis Convention, which successfully influenced Congress to issue a call for the Philadelphia Convention, in order to create a new constitution. He was an active participant at Philadelphia; and he helped achieve ratification by writing 51 of the 85 installments of The Federalist Papers. To this day, it is the single most important reference for Constitutional interpretation.

In 1812,War of 1812: The United States invades Canada at Windsor, Ontario. United States forces led by Gen. William Hull entered Canada during the War of 1812 against Britain. (However, Hull, concerned about a new alliance between the British and the Indians led by Tecumseh, retreated shortly thereafter to Detroit, and surrendered to the British a month later.).

In 1817, the first flower show is held at Dannybrook, County Cork, Ireland.

In 1843, Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, announces that a divine revelation has sanctioned the practice of polygamy.

In 1844, Captain J.N. Taylor first demonstrates the fog horn.

In 1849,Dolley Madison, American wife of James Madison, 4th First Lady of the United States (b. 1768) dies. She was the wife of James Madison, President of the United States from 1809 to 1817. She was noted for her social gifts, which boosted her husband’s popularity as President. In this way, she did much to define the role of the President’s spouse, known only much later by the title First Lady—a function she had sometimes performed earlier for the widowed Jefferson.

Dolley Madison also helped to furnish the newly constructed White House. When the British set fire to it in 1814, she was credited with saving the classic portrait of George Washington. In widowhood, she often lived in poverty, partially relieved by the sale of her late husband’s papers.

In 1859, the Paper bag manufacturing machine was patented by William Goodale, Mass.

In 1893, Publication of the Sherlock Holmes Adventure, “The Adventure of the Gloria Scott ” (BG). It is chronologically the earliest case in Sherlock Holmes canon. This story is related mainly by Holmes rather than Watson, and is the first case to which Holmes applied his powers of deduction, having treated it as a mere hobby until this time.

In 1910, Charles Stewart Rolls, aviator and co-founder of Rolls-Royce, became Britain’s first aviation victim when he crashed his plane near Bournemouth.

In 1926,Gertrude Bell, English archaeologist and spy (b. 1868) was discovered dead, of an apparent overdose of sleeping pills. She was an English writer, traveler, political officer, administrator, spy and archaeologist who explored, mapped, and became highly influential to British imperial policy-making due to her knowledge and contacts, built up through extensive travels in Greater Syria, Mesopotamia, Asia Minor, and Arabia. Along with T. E. Lawrence, Bell helped establish the Hashemite dynasties in what is today Jordan as well as in Iraq.

She played a major role in establishing and helping administer the modern state of Iraq, utilizing her unique perspective from her travels and relations with tribal leaders throughout the Middle East. During her lifetime she was highly esteemed and trusted by British officials and given an immense amount of power for a woman at the time. She has been described as “one of the few representatives of His Majesty’s Government remembered by the Arabs with anything resembling affection”.

In 1933, A new U.S. industrial code was established to fix a minimum wage of 40 cents an hour. This was the first national minimum wage law passed by the U. S. Congress.

In 1934, the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks on Alcatraz Island is abandoned.

German tanks on the southern side of the Kursk salient at the start of Operation Citadel

In 1943,World War II: Battle of Prokhorovka: German and Soviet forces engage in one of the largest tank engagements of all time. It was fought between Waffen-SS units of Nazi Germany and Red Army units of the Soviet Union during the Second World War on the Eastern Front. The climax of the German offensive Operation Citadel, it resulted when the Soviet 5th Guards Tank Army intercepted the II SS-Panzer Corps of the German Wehrmacht near Prokhorovka. The Soviet forces were decimated in the attack, but succeeded in preventing the Wehrmacht from capturing Prokhorovka and breaking through the last heavily fortified defensive belt. With the Germans unable to accomplish their objective for Operation Citadel, they cancelled it and began redeploying their forces to deal with new pressing developments elsewhere. The failure of the operation marked the first time in the war that a major German offensive was halted before it could break through enemy defences. The Soviet Union permanently gained the strategic initiative, and Germany permanently lost the capacity to launch offensives of this scale on the Eastern Front.

In 1944,Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., American general and politician, Governor of Puerto Rico (b. 1887) dies of a heart attack near Sainte-Mère-Église in Normandy. He was living at the time in a converted sleeping truck, captured a few days before from the Germans. He had spent part of the day in a long conversation with his son, Captain Quentin Roosevelt II, who had also landed at Normandy on D-Day. He was stricken at about 10 pm and died, attended by medical help, at about midnight. He was fifty-six years old. On the day of his death, he had been selected by General Omar Bradley for promotion to major general and orders had been cut placing him in command of the 90th Infantry Division. These recommendations were sent to General Dwight D. Eisenhower for approval. However, when Eisenhower called the next morning to approve them, he was told that Roosevelt had died during the night.

In 1954, President Eisenhower proposes an interstate highway system for general use and atomic defense.

In 1957, The first U.S. President to fly in a helicopter during a top-level civil defense exercise simulating a nuclear attack on targets including the White House was Dwight Eisenhower on a Huey Bell UH13J chopper.

In 1982, The last of the distinctive looking Checker taxicabs rolled off the assembly line in Kalamazoo, Michigan. The company had produced those cabs since 1922.

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on Human Rights

In 1984, Democratic presidential candidate Walter F. Mondale announced he’d chosen U.S. Rep. Geraldine A. Ferraro of New York to be his running mate. Ferraro was the first woman to run for the vice presidency of the United States on a major-party ticket.

In 1985, Doctors discovered what turned out to be a cancerous growth in President Reagan’s large intestine, prompting surgery the following day.

In 1986, Protestants paraded throughout Northern Ireland to observe the anniversary of the Battle of the Boyne, and to protest the Anglo-Irish accord giving Ireland a consultative role in running the British-ruled province.

In 1990, Boris N. Yeltsin, president of the Russian republic, shocked the 28th congress of the Soviet Communist Party by announcing he was resigning his party membership, saying he wanted to concentrate on his duties as president of the Russian republic.

In 1994, PLO chief Yasser Arafat and his wife took up permanent residence in the Gaza Strip.

In 1996, the House voted overwhelmingly to define marriage in federal law as a legal union of one man and one woman, no matter what states might say. Gee! that was stupid!

In 1996, Details surfaced on the divorce of Prince Chuck and Princess Diana. Among other things, she kept the princess title but not Her Royal Highness, and got about $25 million in a lump sum followed by an income of $600,000 a year.

In 2000, New Hampshire Chief Justice David Brock was impeached by the Legislature, the first such action against an official in the state since 1790. (He was later acquitted in a state Senate trial.)

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